You should then see a grid of clip art images: Leaving this on all media, let’s search for “teapot” – pop the word in the search box and click the Go button: It’s pretty simple: you can enter a search term, and you can also choose which kind of media you are searching for (useful for PowerPoint presentations, for example, or if you only want photographs to illustrate your document): Making sure that your cursor is at the point where you want the clip art image to appear, click the Clip Art button:Ī clip art search area will appear in the right-hand margin. Of course, choosing and inserting your clip art varies between Word (Excel and PowerPoint) 2007/2010 and Word (Excel and PowerPoint) 2013, so if you want the latter, please scroll down a bit to the relevant heading! How do I use clip art in Word 2007 and Word 2010 and other Microsoft Office software?Ĭlip art is found in the Insert tab, in the Illustrations area (this is an image from Word 2010 the button in Word 2007 has a slightly different, but recognisable, icon and is in the same place):

Examples are taken from Word, but the process works in the same way in all applications. This article applies to Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.